This is the year of adaptive learning. Everyone is fired up about it, from Arne Duncan and Bill Gates to individual teachers and students the world over. Ironically, as the idea of adaptive learning is becoming more popularized, confusion about it is increasing exponentially. So please bear with a little… READ MORE
Students spend a lot of their day learning. They spend six or more hours in bricks-and-mortar classrooms each day, listening to teachers, talking with peers, and working with textbooks/software/technology (collectively, “materials”). Then they spend a few more hours working through materials after school. Some students learn more in the classroom… READ MORE
Education has always been resistant to change. It is such a high-stakes industry — right up there with food, shelter, and medicine in importance — that practitioners are reluctant to try unproven innovations that could possibly lower outcomes. Regardless of industry, innovation is by its nature nearly always incremental. Tectonic… READ MORE
Education and edtech are proving big draws at this year’s World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, with nearly a dozen panels and related events. I’ve been lobbying for this kind of commitment to education here since I started coming to Davos three years ago, but this is the first year I’ve… READ MORE
Edtech is booming. In the past decade, VC investments in edtech have tripled from $146 million in 2002 to $429 million in 2011, according to the National Venture Capital Association. VentureBeat says that the market size for U.S. education could reach $1.2 trillion by 2015. If this were any other information technology… READ MORE
Lately there’s been a ton of press around massive open online courses. MOOCs are a “tsunami,” a “seismic shift“; the New York Times says 2012 is the “year of the MOOC.” People are right to be excited. But why? Much of the recent coverage focuses on numbers: the dozens of top-shelf… READ MORE
This week, our Founder & CEO Jose is being honored at this week’s Builders & Innovators Conference, as one of Goldman Sachs’ “100 most intriguing entrepreneurs.” As part of the award, the team at Goldman Sachs put together a few short videos featuring various entrepreneurs. Visit their site to see… READ MORE
Our Founder and CEO Jose recently talked to Inc. about the challenges of shuttering his first startup, and the sense of responsibility that comes with entrepreneurship. Check out the video for more.
In case you haven’t heard, the Federal Government, led by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the U.S. Department of Education, is extremely serious about getting digital textbooks in every U.S. child’s hands within five years. I’m in Washington, DC today to attend the Digital Textbooks Initiative Meeting, and they’ve… READ MORE
If you haven’t read Jose’s blog post about reverse-engineering Levain’s bakery famous cookies, check it out before reading on! Yesterday, our CEO Jose brought in a big batch of homemade semisweet chocolate peanut butter chip cookies. Meanwhile, our VP of Finance Patricia toted a box of dark chocolate peanut butter… READ MORE
